Reviews by waynekerred

I've never given a Smiths album a listen until now so I'm not sure if they have any better stuff

It's very typical of the 80s British indie rock that was being put out at the time, and I think this album does it ok but pretty standard

Marr is getting the praise for his guitar work but I think the true hero of this album is Andy Rourke's bass, especially on Barbarism Begins at Home.

I can't make my mind up on the vocals. They suck sometimes, but others I think they suit the music well

Classic hard rock album that you can't really go wrong with.

Only thing stopping me from giving it a 5 is a few of the songs towards the back end that I didn't enjoy for whatever reason. Maybe they just weren't as good, or I began to get tired of the album

A high 4

The bass and the guitar work were really, really nice and groovy

The songs were too stretched out. 9/10 I'm all for longer and fewer songs in an album but I don't think the music was suited to that. Each song would have benefitted from being 2-3 minutes shorter in length, because after that it got repetitive and tedious. It's a shame really, it could have been a great album

It's a pretty decent alt rock/grunge album. Some of the riffs were nice and catchy and I loved the guitar tone.

On the other hand, I really didn't like the vocals. I tried hard to get into them but even after a couple of relistens I just can't get past them. I'm not a fan of the acoustic guitar bits and their slower stuff in this isn't as good as the rest of the songs

Overall it's solid, but I wouldn't choose these guys over the likes of Alice In Chains, for example

Quiet and Soma are my standouts

Down To The Waterline and Sultans Of Swing are absolutely fantastic tracks. Unfortunately the rest of the album doesn't live up to the same heights as those two.

It drags on a bit. There were the occasional cool parts like the ending of In The Gallery but not enough imo

Slightly high 3 because I definitely wouldn't complain if this was put on

It's quite a variety of different genres which I quite liked which kept things nice and varied, like the piano in Canary. I didn't like the folk and pop rock aspects of it

Her voice was ok in some songs, but worse in others. She sometimes reminded me of that hippie chick that sings in the TV show Friends

What in the Skyrim

The beats and production of the album are great and the other rappers provide some nice variety and adds to the flow of the album.

Snoop's rapping of this album is decent, but he's done better since this came out. I'd look to his other albums if I wanted to listen to him

I disagree with those saying that it's just another shitty Britpop album and whilst I'd be inclined to agree with them, as I hate Britpop as a genre and through browsing the list of albums it seems that the afore mentioned tend to make up a fair portion of the albums, I think lumping this with the others doesn't do it justice.

It clearly has the Oasis-fueled Britpop elements that I've heavily grown to hate living in a town just outside Manchester, but it also holds some pretty cool prog and psychedelic rock inspirations that I think elevates this album a fair bit. Plus I like the vocals on most of the tracks

I was pretty far from enjoying everything on this one, but some tracks I'll definitely be coming back to, like Pull Together and Daniella. A high 3.

I've always meant to listen to this album at some point. This project gave me the kick up the arse I needed to finally get round to this, and holy shit I've been missing out.

Easily one of the best prog rock albums ever. I would give it a 5 immediately for Epitaph and 21st Century Schizoid Man alone. Ends on the title(ish) track sublimely making this the best album I've had in my (just over) 2 months of generating albums

Only downside to this is the 8 minutes or so of whatever-the-fuck at the end of Moonchild. Why they decided to add in random noises beats me tbh

Found her voice annoying on some songs, but I liked We Do What All We Can and All I Wanna Do as my standout tracks

Music behind the vocals was pretty generic and meh

I love the melancholic atmosphere he created, really boosted by his vocals, which are definitely the best part of the album

Some tracks are really good such as Speed Trials, Alameda and Angeles, but the bad songs are quite the drop off compared to the rest. Albeit there aren't many, they drag the rating from a possible 5 to a mid 4

Still a great listen, definitely deserves a revisit

The faster paced songs like the opening track were great

The rest of the songs dropped off, becoming the sort of café shop background music a lot of jazz and swing is

Their more energetic songs, like Lion Thief and Easy, were miles better than the softer ones. Not to say they were terrible, but pretty generic and forgetful. Not sure the mixing of the album helped them necessarily

Still a decent one nonetheless

Sick ass cover too

The concept itself of the album was interesting but I'm not sure the music did it justice.

The music was decent but nothing really hooked me in

Pinball Wizard is a banger tho

It's certainly one of the albums of all time

Ah fuck it it's a fun one

I've heard enough Christmas songs over the past month

Pissing me off

Merry Christmas fuckers

The music itself gets a 3/4, but the concept of performing a concert in a prison is fucking awesome. The whole idea of it and the interactions Cash had with the crowd add to the album. Absolute fucking comedy when they started cheering when he sand about shooting a women

A pretty decent modern pop album me thinks. Nothing really bad about it

From what I've gathered, this album isn't one of his favourites amongst fans. I find this album to be very underrated in that case because I really enjoyed this one. It's warm and upbeat and his voice is unsurprisingly amazing.

I was deadset on giving this a four and I was trying to think of reasons to mark it down but none really came. Too samey? But I didn't get bored of it. Cheesy lyrics? Probably 80% of music has dumb lyrics. It's just a really solid, easy-listening album and it will most likely become a comfort album of mine

They Won't Go When I Go is my favourite track